Machine learning (ML) is as much a buzzword as it is a profession. Still in its early days, it’s both captured our imagination and scared us silly at the | Continue reading
The Supreme Court has ruled that an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and its App Store can move forward. Now users and developers can sue Apple for | Continue reading
Which skills are trending in tech? According to a new analysis of Burning Glass/NOVA data, the “old school” stalwarts are still going strong: DevOps, C++, | Continue reading
Python is a robust programming language, widely used by many large organizations that prize its versatility. It’s utilized at Netflix, Dropbox and Google; | Continue reading
For many, repos are collections of dependencies or packages of code. A new product from GitHub, Package Registry, will allow you the freedom to manage and | Continue reading
Fees for H-1B visas could jump in coming years, according to the Trump Administration’s fiscal year 2020 budget. “In FY 2020, the Department’s budget | Continue reading
Here is a bold proclamation and a completely new concept nobody has thought of before: tech recruiting can suck. There, I said it. Curious to see just how | Continue reading
The number of tech-related job openings at New York investment banks has plummeted over the past half-year. At Morgan Stanley and Citi, for example, there | Continue reading
What’s the best way to convince developers to experiment with augmented reality (AR)? If you’re Microsoft, you offer the ”developer” version of your | Continue reading
Understanding user access is fundamental to working with AWS, to the point where the platform includes a service called Identity Access Management (IAM). | Continue reading
In 2016, Apple and its Automator/AppleScript boss Sal Soghoian parted ways. Now, it seems Siri Shortcuts is poised to replace Automator on macOS. | Continue reading
Cannabis is now a big, legal business in much of the United States. Since California legalized its medical use in 1996, the industry that grows, packages, | Continue reading
Has Trump's "Buy American and Hire American" executive order, now two years old, impacted H-1B applications at all? Or is the push a failure? | Continue reading
As an 'engineer' in an investment bank, I get to conduct a lot of interviews, especially with people who claim to be able to code in Python. They might be | Continue reading
Billing clients for your freelance work can be difficult. An interesting new theory may help you avoid arguing about how much work you did, and when. | Continue reading
Apple Arcade is a portfolio of highly curated streaming games. That sounds like potentially good news for game developers. But is it? | Continue reading
Before Amazon pulled out of its deal to make New York City home to its second headquarters, there were murmurs over whether investment banks could | Continue reading
Since its first appearance in 2002, the .NET framework has built a healthy platform ecosystem, including .NET Core. Let's explore .NET Core. | Continue reading
If you’re an indie game developer, you’re well aware of the challenges you face. With great ideas, good promotion, and a generous helping of luck, you | Continue reading
HR staffers and recruiters could find their jobs at serious risk due to automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty believes that A.I. will change the workforce (and jobs) much sooner than you might think. “I expect AI to change 100 percent of jobs | Continue reading
Recently, Tesla and Disney went through rounds of layoffs. In both cases, the companies sent letters to employees that were made public. While those | Continue reading
A new study shows companies plan to hire more H-1B candidates domestically, but are also shifting jobs to Canada. Envoy Global recently released a study | Continue reading
Like most hedge funds, Point72 is actively recruiting data scientists as it seeks to build out its quantitative business while also providing big data and | Continue reading
Swift, the language Apple developed and then made open-source in 2015, is growing up fast. But a few have noticed Apple is patenting features for the | Continue reading
Recovering from the latest federal government shutdown reminds Christopher Kennedy of taking an aircraft carrier out of the mothball fleet. A former | Continue reading
The tech industry is enjoying a remarkably low unemployment rate, but that’s not translating into rising salaries for technology professionals, according | Continue reading
While our 2019 Dice Salary Survey shows an overall trend of plateauing tech pro salaries nationwide, we see variations amongst metro areas. And some | Continue reading
Are tech pros happy at work? Many tech companies believe that loading up their offices with all kinds of amenities—from free gyms and unlimited PTO to | Continue reading
The tech industry is enjoying a remarkably low unemployment rate, but that’s not translating into rising salaries for technology professionals, according | Continue reading
Way back in 1985, I created games on the ZX Spectrum/Timex and CBM-64. A friend and I set up a small software house, and in addition to creating our own | Continue reading
Web designers are responsible for the best (and worst) of the web. Given the importance of the role, what’s a typical web designer salary? | Continue reading
Most professionals in these specialties should expect rising demand in 2019: Big Data, artificial intelligence (A.I.), blockchain, cybersecurity. | Continue reading
If you've got two job offers on the table, how do you pick? The choice is never easy, but we've found a simple website that lets you compare roles apples-to-apples. | Continue reading
For the past few months, publications that watch the federal government (such as Politico) have reported rumors that something big is in the works for | Continue reading
The Trump administration is planning some changes to the H-1B lottery system. Those changes could see more highly educated workers obtaining the visa. | Continue reading
Apple has begun asking developers to notarize their apps for macOS, but what does it all mean? We break down the pros and cons of a possibly critical time for Mac app development. | Continue reading
Nobody likes whiteboards, but did you know it's the most dreaded part of the tech interview process? Tech pros just plain hate whiteboard interviews. | Continue reading
When a tech pro figures out how to automate a substantial chunk of their job, they often live in fear. What if their boss thinks they’re no longer useful? | Continue reading
A.I. has come a long way, and still has a ton of work to do, but a new California bill helps prevent A.I. and various bots from acting as though they're human. | Continue reading
Swift 5 was initially set for a late 2018 release, but it's now been pushed back to 2019 – and for one very good reason (besides ABI stability). | Continue reading
The other week, we predicted five programming languages doomed for extinction. It sparked a lot of comments, to put it mildly, but it also got us thinking: What programming languages will grow and thrive in coming years? | Continue reading
Not all programming languages are fated to survive for decades. Here are five programming languages that will likely fade away sooner rather than later. | Continue reading
Twitter is leaning had into spam, claiming it's a core reason developers must now undergo expanded scrutiny before accessing its API. | Continue reading
The open office, a darling of cost-cutting companies which think it will make us all more productive, has now been proven to be a farce. | Continue reading
The App Store isn't new, but it's being refreshed this Fall for iOS and macOS. One of its more critical features was actually discussed as a core concept by Steve Jobs in 1983. | Continue reading
The new Mac App Store is flashy, brilliant, and a total refresh for the desktop app portal Apple made popular, and it's got a few clever tricks up its sleeve. | Continue reading
Burnout is something any tech pro can face, and a new study shows it may actually be worse at larger tech firms with plenty of great perks. | Continue reading